Unilateral cervical nerve injuries: Brachial plexopathies

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-49

  Olson, David E ^a   McBroom, Saul A ^b   Nelson, Benjamin D ^b   Broton, Michael S ^b   Pulling, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; SPINE INJURY; SPORT INJURY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; X RAY;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CERVICAL PLEXUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 33846980841     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11932-007-0011-1     Document Type: Review

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